‘Eco-Conscious Furniture Buying’ 2009-02-23 09:40:29 You’ve traded your SUV for a hybrid, started composting and invested in some re-usable shopping bags.  But what about your furniture?  For the truly eco-conscious, green furniture is the only way to go.  Luckily, there are many, many ways to go green, beginning with your choice of wood.  Certified sustainable wood comes from trees that are sustainably harvested, while other…
	‘New Life for Old Cell Phone Covers’ 2009-01-29 10:44:00 Many of us change our cell phone covers more often than we change our hairstyles – one week we want a sleek black one, the next, that groovy one with the pop art flowers catches our eye.  Of course, when we finish with a cell phone cover, it ends up like most of the unwanted, discarded items in the world do, adding to the ever-expanding mountain of garbage that threatens to…
	‘Busy Bees Make More than Honey’ 2009-01-29 10:36:00 If a budding design superstar created a Science Fair project, it might resemble Studio Libertiny’s amazing “Made by Bees” vase.  This classically-shaped vase, made of honeycomb and – as the name suggests, made BY bees — has to be one of the oddest, rarest and wonderfully weirdest design items we’ve ever run across.  The vase was originally created in 2006, when Rotterdam-based,…
	‘The Bush Dynasty Turns to Fashion’ 2009-01-28 17:59:38 Perhaps, given the current political climate, it was time for the family to move on and stake their claim in an all-new arena.  But whatever the reason, the newest member of the Bush clan to gain fame is doing it in the rag trade.  Lauren Bush, niece of our current president and granddaughter of our 41st, recently introduced her first collection of ready-to-wear styles, a line of…
	‘Recycling Comes To Light’ 2009-01-28 17:22:07 When we think of recycling, we usually envision of piles of stinky trash being compressed or melted down into some sort of goo, and then being molded into an entirely new shape for its “second life.”But there’s a far more efficient way to recycle – finding a way to reuse materials in their original form, without the energy required to break it down and build it back up…